Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.